Good luck! I often have trouble with those high speed CDs -- one of the symptoms is that I hear them sort of cycle (either on and off or from a low speed to a high speed) -- I suspect that sometimes the software expecting to get something from the CDROM times out while the drive is accelerating to "rated" speed.
Anyway, I've taken to stocking up on 4X or 8X drives when I see them cheap ($5 or less) at computer shows. Randy Kramer On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:24 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > Exactly what i was after Randy. Teach me for thinking hdparm was for > hard drives only. Am still getting grief from it though. At least i > now have another avenue to explore. > > On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:00, Randy Kramer wrote: > > hdparm will let you set a slower speed for the cdrom. See > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Hdparm. > > > > Unfortunately, hdparm did not seem to be installed "by default" in > > my Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 installations, but I'm assuming it's > > available somewhere on the installation CDRoms (or from somewhere > > else). > > > > If you can improve the cited page in any way, please do! (After > > all, it is a wiki.) > > > > regards, > > Randy Kramer > > > > On Monday 25 November 2002 12:05 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > > Following the "First -Suspect Me" Thread with interest. > > > > > > My Case... > > > Brand new store bought V9.0 pre-installed computer. > > > It has a 52x CD on hdb (fstab was set up for hdd but i corrected > > > that). The supplied disks are recorded download edition 9.0 40x > > > recordable. The disks have an envelope address size sticker > > > plastered on them. The CD will read any package ok after repeated > > > attempts. > > > > > > Which solutions will help reduce read errors the most. > > > 1. Buy another IDE cable and put the CD on hdc. > > > 2. Remove the stickers incase they are causing speed wobbles. > > > 3. A software method of throttling back the top read speed. > > > (Does this exist and what is it?) > > > 4. Other suggestion...?
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